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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author theorizes that an unhappy child will draw what sort of a house?
(a) Cold, motionless, and rigid.
(b) A dream house.
(c) Happy, with doorknobs and chimney smoke.
(d) Small and dark.

2. What do poets create, according to Bachelard, to transcend conflicted night dreams?
(a) Poetic daydreams.
(b) New resolutions to nightmares.
(c) New memories.
(d) Poetic descriptions of the night.

3. The objectivity of a house, states Bachelard, is separate from what?
(a) Subjective matters of taste and style.
(b) Its decor.
(c) The objects it contains.
(d) Subjective feelings and dreams.

4. Who wrote of "La Redousse"?
(a) Bachelard.
(b) Baudelaire.
(c) Rilke.
(d) Bosco.

5. Bachelard, expanding on the work of Rilke, proposes that a box top, like the cover of a pot, may do what?
(a) Create deceptions.
(b) Make the world get along better.
(c) Maintain secrecy.
(d) Lead to future discovery.

6. Which statement does Bachelard determine is most indicative of attic fears?
(a) Attic fears indicate spiritual unrest.
(b) Attic fears take longer fade, and remain tentative and unknown.
(c) Attic fears indicate childhood trauma.
(d) Attic fears may be reasoned away.

7. A poetic image is independent of what according to Bachelard?
(a) Imagination.
(b) Art.
(c) Causality.
(d) Reverberation.

8. What can be said of a closed box, in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) It represents forgotten memories.
(b) It represents the human need for secrecy and confinement.
(c) It inspires the poetic spirit.
(d) It has more to see and experience than an open chest.

9. What description does Bachelard give to Bergson's drawer metaphor?
(a) Dry poetics.
(b) Dry rationalism.
(c) Pop psychology.
(d) Negative objectivity.

10. A phenomenologist considers what regarding a house?
(a) All the ways in which an individual inhabits his vital space.
(b) Paranormal presences.
(c) The spiritual flow between rooms and levels.
(d) Drafty places which lead to pheumonia and other respiratory complaints.

11. Rilke wrote that storms seem more aggressive and hostile where?
(a) In the winter.
(b) In the countryside.
(c) In the summer.
(d) In cities.

12. Bachelard believes that rooms and houses are psychological diagrams writers and poets use to analyze what?
(a) Architecture.
(b) Poetic structure.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Intimacy.

13. According to Bachelard's topoanalysis, what term can be used to describe city apartments?
(a) Superimposed cellars.
(b) Superimposed boxes.
(c) Ultra-cellars.
(d) Ultra-boxes.

14. What is the ability to imagine?
(a) A waste of the intelligent mind.
(b) A major power of human nature.
(c) A symptom of mental illness.
(d) A method of filling gaps in scientific understanding.

15. What is Bachelard's metaphor of the chrysalis?
(a) From the cottage chrysalis, the winged manor flies.
(b) From the childhood chrysalis, the butterfly moves to a new house.
(c) From the sturdy chrysalis, the delicate butterfly emerges.
(d) From the unnoticed chrysalis, the flamboyant butterfly flies.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bachelard describe images that attribute human qualities to a nest?

2. Bachelard uses what to illustrate the reality of poetic imagery?

3. Using a metaphor, a happy household can be compared to what, according to the author?

4. For Bachelard, topophilia can be described in what way?

5. Poetry stimulates what sort of response in the reader in the opinion of Bachelard?

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